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... SPORTS, p. 10
'Music'
... FEATURES, p.
.. . OPINIONS, p. 9
... OPINIONS, p. 9
Louis Farrakhan speaks on
education and family values
By Sarah Hedgespeth
Staff Writer
Nation of Islam leader Minister Louis Farrakhan has been
charged in the past with making racist remarks against whites and
Jews, but a racist comment did not escape his lips during his visit
to the twin cities last week.
Farrakhan delivered a speech at Bloomington's Eastland Suites
Conference Center on Sept. 28. His public appearance was in
response to recent charges that the Department of Children and
Family Services acts too quickly to remove children from their
families.
According to Keeping Families Together, the organization
which leads the accusations against DCFS. DCFS has removed
children from parents who merely spanked them, calling it abuse.
Farrakhan addressed this issue in his speech.
"I felt that Minister Louis Farrakhan's message was universal. I
agreed with his thoughts on the importance of family and educa-tion,
equality of races and importance of respect and honor
towards women. I disagreed with some of his views, but in all, his
message was very inspiring," first-year student Jordan Ault said.
Regarding the charges against DCFS, Farrakhan said that
spanking should be used only as a last resort for a disobedience
problem. He described the difference between child abuse and a
levelheaded parent spanking a disobedient child after having
weighed all other options.
The rest of Farrakhan's speech mostly centered on improving
the future of children everywhere. The first reform he proposed
was in the area of education.
He said that it was a travesty for the American government to
make defense their number one spending priority.
"Destruction will not come from the outside," Farrakhan said.
In his eyes, America defeats itself by putting the military ahead
of cultivating its children.
Farrakhan said that in many communist societies, education is
completely free. He expressed a wish that the United States fol-low
this practice, because, he said, "wicked" men stay in power
by keeping people ignorant.
He also expressed concern over the state of educational institu-tions,
particularly colleges. He compared getting a college educa-tion
to buying a used car and said that students think the educa-tion
they will receive "looks good." They take it as is and then are
lucky if they can "drive it off the lot."
"You're paying for something you'll be lucky if you can ever
use," Farrakhan said.
Farrakhan also referred to the educational system as too insti-tutional.
He said that teachers view children who think "outside
the box" as disciplinary problems.
"We have not given each human being the chance to be all that
they can be," Farrakhan said.
He repeatedly referred to the cultivation of the American peo-ple
as the salvation of the country.
Farrakhan's speech was generally well received by audience
members.
"His visit brought out a diverse crowd. It really humanized the
issues for me and showed that in spite of color, there's a certain
way we all deserve to be treated," audience member Shari
Hardwick said.
"I heard Louis Farrakhan saying a lot of 'we need to do this and
we need to do that,' but I didn't hear him give any suggestions on
how we're supposed to go about accomplishing these things,"
first-year student Laura Cooper said.
Farrakhan's Million Family March will be held Oct. 16 in
Washington, D.C. The march is a nationwide effort to keep fami-lies
strong and united. Farrakhan is on a 19-city tour to promote
the event. For more information on the march, visit www.million-familymarch.
com.
A protestor holds a sign outside of Kohl's department
store last Saturday. Demonstrators have targeted Kohl's
and other department stores because of their alleged use
of sweatshop goods. The majority of protestors were stu-dents
from ISU. Erin White/The Argus
In preparation
for Illinois
Wesleyan
University's
sesquicentennial
celebration, a
worker repairs
and cleans the
pillars that
greet visitors at
IWU's west
entrance to
campus last
Tuesday. They
have been
doing work on
the pillars
every day for
the last two
weeks in order
to restore them
to their original
condition. Mike
Mayo/The Argus
Homecoming to
bring students,
alumni
By Sarah Platt
Staff Writer
The leaves are falling, football sea-son
is in full swing, and you can't deny
it: Homecoming spirit is in the air.
For alumni, Illinois Wesleyan
University's Homecoming brings to
mind football, floats, parades and old
friends. Current students may envision
it as fraternity formals, chubby bunny
contests or watching students lip synch
to Britney Spears.
This year's Homecoming includes
the much-hyped celebration of IWU's
sesquicentennial. According to Steve
Seibring, director of alumni relations,
the coupling of these two events will
draw between 25-50 percent more
alumni back to campus than have past
celebrations.
"There are opportunities this year to
bring alumni and students together for
activities more than in the past," said
junior Lora Nickels, special events
commissioner for Student Senate.
Nickels worked with Homecoming
Committee Chairpersons John Rapp and
together
Laura Daniels to make Homecoming
progress each year into an event that stu-dents
and alumni can look forward to as
one of the best weeks on campus.
"The Homecoming events have been
getting bigger and better over the last
three years," Nickels said. "The com-mittee's
goal is to change the image of
Homecoming from an event mostly
concentrated on Greek-affiliated stu-dents
and football to a week full of
activities that all students can enjoy and
from which they can create memories."
This year, one goal was to create a
greater student-alumni connection. By
bringing these two together, Nickels
believes that students will enrich their
experiences by learning from the past
classes.
The IWU Homecoming activities
kick off on Sunday night and fill the
week with events to show pride, spirit,
talent, humor and giving.
The week begins with the decoration
celebration and ice cream socials for
teams. Students can sign up for games
with their RA or Greek activities repre-see
HOMECOMING p. 7
Protestors rally against
Kohl's department store
By Kristin Esch
Staff Writer
"2, 4, 6, 8 - We do not appreciate - Kohl's profits soar-ing
high - while workers' children starve and die."
This chant summarized the feelings of protesters who
assembled in front of Kohl's department store at Eastland
Mall last Saturday. Those present included over 30 students,
Bloomington and Normal residents, teachers, union mem-bers
and two Nicaraguan female workers who protested
Kohl's use of sweatshop goods.
The demonstrators aimed their complaints at the Chentex
plant, a Taiwanese-owned factory that has allegedly participated
in countless abuses. They claim that Chentex management
forces workers to work 12, 14, 17 and even 24-hour shifts. The
mistreatment of female workers is an issue that threatens the
livelihood of the corporations that employ Chentex production.
Zenayda Torres, a former Chentex worker and secretary of the
Union of Chentex Workers, spoke at the demonstration and
afterward gave a speech in Schroeder Hall at the Illinois State
University campus.
"Sometimes they used to hit the workers. They screamed
and demanded that they work hard," Torres said.
Another Nicaraguan worker, Angelica Perez, said the
screams included crude words.
Headquartered in Menomonee Falls, Wis., Kohl's and
other department stores are accused of profitting from
sweatshop labor.
Besides paying wages that cover less than a third of the cost
of living in Nicaragua, Chentex management allegedly con-ducted
searches after workers passed the barbed wire that sur-rounded
the factories.
According to Torres, searches included "touching our inti-mate
parts."
Torres and Perez said that inadequate wages don't allow
workers and their families to eat three times a day or buy milk.
Single mothers are often forced to raise their children on coffee
1947 - Students protested discriminato-ry
treatment at the Pilgrim Restaurant in
downtown Normal. A picket line formed
outside the establishment after managers
refused to serve black students. Some
students at ISU and IWU criticized their
picketing peers, calling the protest "un-
American" and "a manifestation of racial
prejudice." The story received second
page coverage in The Argus, and the arti-cle
did not report whether IWU students
were among the protesters.
1951 - A new film called "Take Care of
my Little Girl" attempted to expose the
dark secrets of sorority and fraternity
life. IWU students interviewed after see-ing
the film commented that it failed to
change their opinions of Greek life. One
senior adamantly opposed to the Greek
or what Perez described as "a gruel based on cornmeal."
Torres said the abuse of female workers and the effort
required by the jobs resulted in the routine discovery of
fetuses in the plant's bathrooms. Pregnant women, however,
were often forced to resign before they could quit.
Perez, who had never before been dismissed from any
employment, was astonished when the company fired her
Aug. 14, after management witnessed a member of a visit-ing
religious delegation pat her on the back.
"They didn't want anybody who had a friendship with a
unionist," Perez said.
Perez claimed the management gave her this response when
she asked why they had fired her. Two days later, her sister's
employment was also terminated.
Torres' goal is to "diminish or reduce the bad conditions." She
hopes to win dignified treatment for workers.
Supporters of this movement do not want to push the
Taiwanese company out of Nicaragua. With a 60 percent unem-ployment
rate, citizens are desperate for the jobs. The high
unemployment rate is one reason the alleged mistreatment per-sists,
as Nicaraguans knock down doors for what are considered
extremely pitiful wages.
Among those present at the demonstration was Charles
Kernaghan, executive director of the National Labor
Committee. He called the protest "truly a moral campaign"
and cited it as an example of unmasking the true face of the
global economy. His goal is to help these workers "climb
out of misery and poverty."
"Corporations like Kohl's are ruthlessly driven by the bot-tom
line. They're not going to give an inch until they feel
sufficient pressure," Kernaghan said.
According to Kernaghan, the Nicaraguans and their sym-pathizers
rely upon the decency of the American people to help
restore these women's rights. He said the codes of conduct that
companies like Kohl's create are just "paper for human rela-see
SWEATSHOPS p. 7
lifestyle commented, "I'm still con-vinced
that the fraternity-sorority
arrangement is a good deal. It keeps
those screwballs in one section of the
campus." Some female pledges felt the
film was totally unrealistic and said, "If a
girl wants to get ahead in college social-ly,
a sorority is the best thing for her."
1953 Former IWU student Glenna
Wahl signed a professional contract to
become the vocalist for Tommy Reed's
orchestra. The bandleader heard her
improvising:when he played at a club in
Springfield and asked her to sign on the
spot. Wahl was to graduate from IWU in
the spring of 1954 with a music degree.
1961 - A columnist for The Argus felt
there was too much pressure for students
at IWU to conform and participate in
every social activity to show school spir-it.
She reasoned that college should be a
time to appreciate independence and cre-ative
thinking. At the time, activities such
as Homecoming, Greek Week and fresh-man
beanie-wearing were considered
mandatory. The columnist advised that
"those who wish to be alone should be
lefitn p eace."
1963 - Student Senate voted 15-13 that
men should be required to wear a shirt
and tie to the noon meal served on
Sunday in the Commons. The "no grub"
policy would penalize students who
came to Sunday Brunch dressed inap-propriately.
- Compiled by Natalie Studwell
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Titans defeat last year's Madonna lassos another Britney Spears drives
volleyball conference I success with electronic I one student crazy
champs
... SPORTS, p. 10
'Music'
... FEATURES, p.
.. . OPINIONS, p. 9
... OPINIONS, p. 9
Louis Farrakhan speaks on
education and family values
By Sarah Hedgespeth
Staff Writer
Nation of Islam leader Minister Louis Farrakhan has been
charged in the past with making racist remarks against whites and
Jews, but a racist comment did not escape his lips during his visit
to the twin cities last week.
Farrakhan delivered a speech at Bloomington's Eastland Suites
Conference Center on Sept. 28. His public appearance was in
response to recent charges that the Department of Children and
Family Services acts too quickly to remove children from their
families.
According to Keeping Families Together, the organization
which leads the accusations against DCFS. DCFS has removed
children from parents who merely spanked them, calling it abuse.
Farrakhan addressed this issue in his speech.
"I felt that Minister Louis Farrakhan's message was universal. I
agreed with his thoughts on the importance of family and educa-tion,
equality of races and importance of respect and honor
towards women. I disagreed with some of his views, but in all, his
message was very inspiring," first-year student Jordan Ault said.
Regarding the charges against DCFS, Farrakhan said that
spanking should be used only as a last resort for a disobedience
problem. He described the difference between child abuse and a
levelheaded parent spanking a disobedient child after having
weighed all other options.
The rest of Farrakhan's speech mostly centered on improving
the future of children everywhere. The first reform he proposed
was in the area of education.
He said that it was a travesty for the American government to
make defense their number one spending priority.
"Destruction will not come from the outside," Farrakhan said.
In his eyes, America defeats itself by putting the military ahead
of cultivating its children.
Farrakhan said that in many communist societies, education is
completely free. He expressed a wish that the United States fol-low
this practice, because, he said, "wicked" men stay in power
by keeping people ignorant.
He also expressed concern over the state of educational institu-tions,
particularly colleges. He compared getting a college educa-tion
to buying a used car and said that students think the educa-tion
they will receive "looks good." They take it as is and then are
lucky if they can "drive it off the lot."
"You're paying for something you'll be lucky if you can ever
use," Farrakhan said.
Farrakhan also referred to the educational system as too insti-tutional.
He said that teachers view children who think "outside
the box" as disciplinary problems.
"We have not given each human being the chance to be all that
they can be," Farrakhan said.
He repeatedly referred to the cultivation of the American peo-ple
as the salvation of the country.
Farrakhan's speech was generally well received by audience
members.
"His visit brought out a diverse crowd. It really humanized the
issues for me and showed that in spite of color, there's a certain
way we all deserve to be treated," audience member Shari
Hardwick said.
"I heard Louis Farrakhan saying a lot of 'we need to do this and
we need to do that,' but I didn't hear him give any suggestions on
how we're supposed to go about accomplishing these things,"
first-year student Laura Cooper said.
Farrakhan's Million Family March will be held Oct. 16 in
Washington, D.C. The march is a nationwide effort to keep fami-lies
strong and united. Farrakhan is on a 19-city tour to promote
the event. For more information on the march, visit www.million-familymarch.
com.
A protestor holds a sign outside of Kohl's department
store last Saturday. Demonstrators have targeted Kohl's
and other department stores because of their alleged use
of sweatshop goods. The majority of protestors were stu-dents
from ISU. Erin White/The Argus
In preparation
for Illinois
Wesleyan
University's
sesquicentennial
celebration, a
worker repairs
and cleans the
pillars that
greet visitors at
IWU's west
entrance to
campus last
Tuesday. They
have been
doing work on
the pillars
every day for
the last two
weeks in order
to restore them
to their original
condition. Mike
Mayo/The Argus
Homecoming to
bring students,
alumni
By Sarah Platt
Staff Writer
The leaves are falling, football sea-son
is in full swing, and you can't deny
it: Homecoming spirit is in the air.
For alumni, Illinois Wesleyan
University's Homecoming brings to
mind football, floats, parades and old
friends. Current students may envision
it as fraternity formals, chubby bunny
contests or watching students lip synch
to Britney Spears.
This year's Homecoming includes
the much-hyped celebration of IWU's
sesquicentennial. According to Steve
Seibring, director of alumni relations,
the coupling of these two events will
draw between 25-50 percent more
alumni back to campus than have past
celebrations.
"There are opportunities this year to
bring alumni and students together for
activities more than in the past," said
junior Lora Nickels, special events
commissioner for Student Senate.
Nickels worked with Homecoming
Committee Chairpersons John Rapp and
together
Laura Daniels to make Homecoming
progress each year into an event that stu-dents
and alumni can look forward to as
one of the best weeks on campus.
"The Homecoming events have been
getting bigger and better over the last
three years," Nickels said. "The com-mittee's
goal is to change the image of
Homecoming from an event mostly
concentrated on Greek-affiliated stu-dents
and football to a week full of
activities that all students can enjoy and
from which they can create memories."
This year, one goal was to create a
greater student-alumni connection. By
bringing these two together, Nickels
believes that students will enrich their
experiences by learning from the past
classes.
The IWU Homecoming activities
kick off on Sunday night and fill the
week with events to show pride, spirit,
talent, humor and giving.
The week begins with the decoration
celebration and ice cream socials for
teams. Students can sign up for games
with their RA or Greek activities repre-see
HOMECOMING p. 7
Protestors rally against
Kohl's department store
By Kristin Esch
Staff Writer
"2, 4, 6, 8 - We do not appreciate - Kohl's profits soar-ing
high - while workers' children starve and die."
This chant summarized the feelings of protesters who
assembled in front of Kohl's department store at Eastland
Mall last Saturday. Those present included over 30 students,
Bloomington and Normal residents, teachers, union mem-bers
and two Nicaraguan female workers who protested
Kohl's use of sweatshop goods.
The demonstrators aimed their complaints at the Chentex
plant, a Taiwanese-owned factory that has allegedly participated
in countless abuses. They claim that Chentex management
forces workers to work 12, 14, 17 and even 24-hour shifts. The
mistreatment of female workers is an issue that threatens the
livelihood of the corporations that employ Chentex production.
Zenayda Torres, a former Chentex worker and secretary of the
Union of Chentex Workers, spoke at the demonstration and
afterward gave a speech in Schroeder Hall at the Illinois State
University campus.
"Sometimes they used to hit the workers. They screamed
and demanded that they work hard," Torres said.
Another Nicaraguan worker, Angelica Perez, said the
screams included crude words.
Headquartered in Menomonee Falls, Wis., Kohl's and
other department stores are accused of profitting from
sweatshop labor.
Besides paying wages that cover less than a third of the cost
of living in Nicaragua, Chentex management allegedly con-ducted
searches after workers passed the barbed wire that sur-rounded
the factories.
According to Torres, searches included "touching our inti-mate
parts."
Torres and Perez said that inadequate wages don't allow
workers and their families to eat three times a day or buy milk.
Single mothers are often forced to raise their children on coffee
1947 - Students protested discriminato-ry
treatment at the Pilgrim Restaurant in
downtown Normal. A picket line formed
outside the establishment after managers
refused to serve black students. Some
students at ISU and IWU criticized their
picketing peers, calling the protest "un-
American" and "a manifestation of racial
prejudice." The story received second
page coverage in The Argus, and the arti-cle
did not report whether IWU students
were among the protesters.
1951 - A new film called "Take Care of
my Little Girl" attempted to expose the
dark secrets of sorority and fraternity
life. IWU students interviewed after see-ing
the film commented that it failed to
change their opinions of Greek life. One
senior adamantly opposed to the Greek
or what Perez described as "a gruel based on cornmeal."
Torres said the abuse of female workers and the effort
required by the jobs resulted in the routine discovery of
fetuses in the plant's bathrooms. Pregnant women, however,
were often forced to resign before they could quit.
Perez, who had never before been dismissed from any
employment, was astonished when the company fired her
Aug. 14, after management witnessed a member of a visit-ing
religious delegation pat her on the back.
"They didn't want anybody who had a friendship with a
unionist," Perez said.
Perez claimed the management gave her this response when
she asked why they had fired her. Two days later, her sister's
employment was also terminated.
Torres' goal is to "diminish or reduce the bad conditions." She
hopes to win dignified treatment for workers.
Supporters of this movement do not want to push the
Taiwanese company out of Nicaragua. With a 60 percent unem-ployment
rate, citizens are desperate for the jobs. The high
unemployment rate is one reason the alleged mistreatment per-sists,
as Nicaraguans knock down doors for what are considered
extremely pitiful wages.
Among those present at the demonstration was Charles
Kernaghan, executive director of the National Labor
Committee. He called the protest "truly a moral campaign"
and cited it as an example of unmasking the true face of the
global economy. His goal is to help these workers "climb
out of misery and poverty."
"Corporations like Kohl's are ruthlessly driven by the bot-tom
line. They're not going to give an inch until they feel
sufficient pressure," Kernaghan said.
According to Kernaghan, the Nicaraguans and their sym-pathizers
rely upon the decency of the American people to help
restore these women's rights. He said the codes of conduct that
companies like Kohl's create are just "paper for human rela-see
SWEATSHOPS p. 7
lifestyle commented, "I'm still con-vinced
that the fraternity-sorority
arrangement is a good deal. It keeps
those screwballs in one section of the
campus." Some female pledges felt the
film was totally unrealistic and said, "If a
girl wants to get ahead in college social-ly,
a sorority is the best thing for her."
1953 Former IWU student Glenna
Wahl signed a professional contract to
become the vocalist for Tommy Reed's
orchestra. The bandleader heard her
improvising:when he played at a club in
Springfield and asked her to sign on the
spot. Wahl was to graduate from IWU in
the spring of 1954 with a music degree.
1961 - A columnist for The Argus felt
there was too much pressure for students
at IWU to conform and participate in
every social activity to show school spir-it.
She reasoned that college should be a
time to appreciate independence and cre-ative
thinking. At the time, activities such
as Homecoming, Greek Week and fresh-man
beanie-wearing were considered
mandatory. The columnist advised that
"those who wish to be alone should be
lefitn p eace."
1963 - Student Senate voted 15-13 that
men should be required to wear a shirt
and tie to the noon meal served on
Sunday in the Commons. The "no grub"
policy would penalize students who
came to Sunday Brunch dressed inap-propriately.
- Compiled by Natalie Studwell
_ _ _ _ L - i I I -1 Ir I)-LI IIII -- ~c--ec - IC 1 ~~ 1~111 - _ --- 3s sl~l s)
This week in IWU History